by CJ | Sep 18, 2009 | Journal
Nope, it’s not Christmas, and that wasn’t a sledful of reindeer that got me out into the garden. It was Jane with an extension ladder and the determination to actually clean the gutters. I wasn’t about to leave her solo out there, especially with an...
by CJ | Sep 18, 2009 | Journal
…including cute kitteh pix from the Black Prince and Her Furry Grace. If you go to her Galleries page and click on the highlighted name of the member in question, you will get, center screen, their personal gallery. More pix are welcome. She has written an...
by CJ | Sep 17, 2009 | Journal
One of the fun bits about genealogy as a hobby is that you end up delving into places and areas you’ve never remotely understood. And I always pooh-poohed any possibility of being able to trace ancestry back into the Roman Empire, but research got me into some...
by CJ | Sep 16, 2009 | Journal
…jigsaw puzzles. Online jigsaw puzzles and codebreaking is my downfall… A pretty routine day, just more to do than any 6 people can do. Plus Jane has launched us on a housecleaning kick: a room a day. I fear I didn’t do a whole room—I’ve...
by CJ | Sep 16, 2009 | Journal
…jigsaw puzzles. Online jigsaw puzzles and codebreaking is my downfall… A pretty routine day, just more to do than any 6 people can do. Plus Jane has launched us on a housecleaning kick: a room a day. I fear I didn’t do a whole room—I’ve...
by CJ | Sep 15, 2009 | Journal
It’s been very hard to keep my focus and my momentum due to circumstances you all know, but I think I am over the hump and still making sense. I’ll of course do a running rewrite to be sure everything makes the sense I think it does, but I think I am on...
by CJ | Sep 14, 2009 | Journal
…are exploring the architecture. Frequent e-mails, and substance is happening as she and I figure out what we want to do and where we need to put it to have that happen. I don’t think you can see much of it yet, but there is stuff happening behind the...
by CJ | Sep 12, 2009 | Journal
I try to keep an ear to the pond when I’m near it, and with warm weather comes clogged filters. I heard the telltale pitch of the pump motor last night when I was going to bed, so nothing would do but go out there in the tatty red robe we use for hair dye and...
by CJ | Sep 10, 2009 | Journal
It’s not going to be too hard, actually—once I learn to tie pages together. We now have the print color straightened out. If the size is still too small, it’s CSS and you should be able to scale it up, but if not, tell me and I’ll fix it from...
by CJ | Sep 9, 2009 | Journal
Oh, you’re going to hear a lot of it approaching 2012. And I just saw one of the most atrocious pieces of reporting on the History Channel: they ought to be ashamed of themselves. a. Ever actually read Nostradamus? He lived during the Black Death and right next...
by CJ | Sep 8, 2009 | Journal
You learn things chasing ancestors..things that aren’t in the history books, nor quite spelled out in anthropology texts. American kids hear a lot of Pilgrims seeking religous freedom in the Colonies, and not a great deal about the English Civil War, phase 1 and...
by CJ | Sep 7, 2009 | Journal
I’ve spent the last few days outlining to the end (after remembering what the end is, and relocating it); and simultaneously recovering the blown-up 72 generation, 40,000 person genealogy file, bit by painful bit… It’s funny. So much of the database...
